Delta denies using AI to set flight prices after lawmakers’ criticism

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian speaks to ‘The Claman Countdown’ about the company’s developments at the CES 2025. Delta Airlines on Thursday said it has not used artificial intelligence to set prices for flights following criticism from congressional lawmakers.  In a letter to Democratic Senators Ruben Gallego, Mark Warner and Richard Blumenthal, the Atlanta-based … Read more

Nvidia says its chips have no ‘backdoors’ after China raises concerns

The Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman joins ‘Varney & Co.’ and discusses Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote and announcements at the GTC 2025 conference. Tech giant Nvidia said on Thursday that its chips do not contain any “backdoors” that would allow others to remotely access or control them, following concerns from China over the security … Read more

Trade measures critical to ending plastic pollution

That assessment by UN trade and development body, UNCTAD, comes in an update published on Thursday ahead of the final round of talks to develop a legally binding international instrument against plastic pollution. “Although plastics are directly linked to the triple planetary crisis – pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change – there is still no comprehensive international … Read more

Once-in-a-decade push for the ‘locked out’: Global leaders set for landmark UN conference in Turkmenistan

Backed by the new Awaza Programme of Action, the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries or LLDC3 will push for freer transit, smarter trade corridors, stronger economic resilience and fresh financing to lift development prospects for the 570 million people living in those countries. For landlocked nations, geography has long dictated destiny.   Trade … Read more

Global LEO satellite comms services spend set to hit $14.8bn in 2026

Research from Gartner has pointed to the emergence of low-Earth orbit (LEO) consumer and business use cases that are driving communications service providers (CSPs) to expand the market to the point of enabling LEO satellites to become a mainstream enterprise broadband technology. The study notes that to date, LEO satellites have primarily delivered broadband … Read more